For Canadian politicos who knew her, murdered British MP was passionate, dedicated advocate

'She was very central to driving me to do better,' says ministerial staffer Louis Belanger, who worked with her at Oxfam.

A makeshift memorial in London, U.K. to commemorate MP Jo Cox, who was assassinated last week after meeting with constituents.

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Slain British MP Jo Cox was a tireless, driven woman deeply dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable people, and who always managed to bring out the best from her co-workers, says a Canadian ministerial staffer who previously worked alongside her. Louis Belanger, director of communications for Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.), worked with Ms. Cox for a brief spell in 2004 while both were stationed in the Brussels office of Oxfam, and then

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